[1][2] Part of the 1962–63 bowl game season, it matched the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the independent Miami Hurricanes.
[3][4] The Cornhuskers finished third in the Big Eight Conference under first-year head coach Bob Devaney, but were in a bowl game for the first time in eight years.
The pilot of the Cornhuskers' team plane refused to take off until he received word that the expenditures check cleared.
The two teams would meet up five more times (1984, 1989, 1992, 1995, & 2002) over the next four decades, with all those games helping to determine the national champion.
Both final polls were released in early December, prior to the bowls.